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General CommentJust based on the title, you can guess that this song is about envy.
However, there's a flip-side and Ronald's lines really sum it up:
"Has the grass been greener on the other side at all?"

You can be jealous of someone and acknowledge that, but in the end is what they have all that much better than what you have? And then you realize that you don't really want to be them.

General CommentI think that she is looking at sombody who is really popular and talented at everything and inwardly wishing she could be like that but doesn't want to envy that person and wants to be happy with who she is

General CommentSo, what I know is the Christian symbolism. Perhaps someone can help with the parts I don't get?

It seems from some of these lines that the speaker is addressing Jesus:

"While you're making wine from water"
Jesus first reveals himself as the Son of God by turning water into wine at a wedding

"All the heroes in the gutter
Finally get their ever after
As they lay their final glance
Upon your ever shining armor"

This is a little more nebulous, the first one was very specific, but it does fit well with what the Bible says is going to happen after death. (The lowly will be exalted, the poor will inherit the Earth, etc.)

For the last two lines, I am not quite sure - either the armor is Jesus' which would make sense because we are supposed to meet Jesus after death - or a person in armor is killing the person? I do think the first interpretation makes more sense.

What I don't understand is the "outrun me" part and the "grass is greener" part.